Aran cuts design time by 50%, strengthens competitive advantage with its Eden™ 3-D printing system - Objet - #1

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At a Glance Company: Aran Research & Development URL: www.aran-rd.com Location: Caesarea, Israel Industry: Leading Israel-based research and development house Challenges • To remain competitive and enable customers to meet tight time-to-market constraints, Aran needed to reduce the time and cost needed for development Solution The Eden350V™ 3-D Printing System from Objet Results • More frequent production of models throughout the development process • Earlier spotting and correction of design and engineering errors • Lower overall development costs • Faster development time Aran Research & Development serves the local high-tech industry and international clients in the fields of medical and security products, printing equipment electronic packaging, agricultural products and numerous other tools and machines. Aran is the largest product, design and development house in Israel with more than 70 experts in design, engineering, prototyping, mold-making and other fields. Aran offers its customers a full service from product design through to pre-production. As Aran’s typical customers’ markets are fast-moving and cost-sensitive, the development house constantly needs to seek for ways to reduce design time, costs and enhance its service. Accurate models enable early-stage design verification “We needed technology that would allow us to check and illustrate design for our customers,” says Kobi Jakobi, Engineering Manager of the Plastic and Electronic Packaging Department at Aran. “The Eden350V allows us to evaluate the physical shape, assembly procedure, ergonomics and industrial design of the product as soon as we finish designing it on our CAD system.” This means the team can detect engineering errors in a very short time – virtually as soon as a design milestone is completed and long before the tooling stage when changes can be more costly. Boaz Drori, Design Studio Manager adds. “The quality of models we get from the Eden system is amazing. The fine details, high accuracy and smooth surfaces all come together to create incredibly realistic models.” Other reasons that Aran chose Objet’s Eden350V include its ease of use, high reliability, and cost effectiveness. The Eden system enables Aran to build even large models quickly, to create smoothly curved edges in which the 16-micron layers are invisible to the naked eye, and to easily finish and paint the models to emulate the look and feel of the final product. The fact that the materials come in non-contact sealed containers, with easy switching between the different materials, was also attractive to Aran. Saving time and facilitating communication All these advantages add up to significant time savings. “Overall, we’ve seen a 50% reduction in our design time as a result of using the Eden system,” says Drori. General Aran cuts design time by 50%, strengthens competitive advantage with its Eden™ 3-D printing system “The Eden 3-D printing system is a real breakthrough in the world of design… The quality of models we get from it is amazing” Boaz Drori, Design Studio Manager, Aran Research & Development Case Study